A movie, a life portrait. Reversal of the clock, a sudden storm, everything seems to be arranged. And a strange beginning, destined to an extraordinary end.
The film is a reminiscent account of Benjamin's life. Benjamin was born on the day of victory in World War I. He was born as an old man, and on that day his mother died in childbirth and his father abandoned him in front of an old people's home. Mrs. Queenie adopts him, and instead of dying quickly, as the doctors say, he grows stronger and stronger year after year.
Since he was born as an old man, he was in an old people's home, experiencing the saddest old age of mankind, and then saying goodbye to those he loved around him as if for the rest of his life.
Benjamin's Love
One of the turning points in his life was when, at the age of twelve, he met six-year-old Daisy, who later became his "childhood" playmate, and both Daisy and Benjamin grew up. Benjamin then went to work on a tugboat and followed it to Russia. There, he had an undisclosed affair with Elizabeth, a swimmer across the English Channel, who was the first married woman to give him a passionate kiss when she was not beautiful and pale in his eyes. Daisy becomes a world-famous ballet dancer, while Benjamin is caught up in World War II and returns home after the war. Benjamin meets Daisy again in his hometown and starts a happy and romantic love journey with her. Then later, they have their own children, but because Benjamin is worried about his increasingly young, considering Daisy can not take care of 2 people, and finally had to choose to leave ......
Miracle
Life is a lonely journey towards death, you do not know when and where to encounter what kind of sadness and joy, more do not know how long this journey, all may depend on chance. Like a game of betting about life and death, if you are still alive, should not feel grateful. Dawes, who was struck by lightning seven times, said, "Although I am blind in one eye and can't hear well in my ears, and my body twitches all over the place and I forget things all the time, God keeps reminding me that I'm lucky to be alive today. So life may be lonely and sad and miraculous. As long as you are still alive, you still have the opportunity to appreciate all kinds of happiness in the journey of life; as long as you are still alive, you still have the opportunity to get back from God what he once took belongs to you; as long as you are still alive, you still have the opportunity to create miracles.
So even if you are just a tugboat captain, you can still be an artist.
So even if you don't become the youngest woman to cross the English Channel, you can still be the oldest woman to do so;?
So even if you are traveling against the flow of life, even if you have to fight for your life moment by moment, you can still be like a hummingbird and become the most beautiful miracle of life. You can still be like a hummingbird, never stop lifting your wings and traveling through the cold and harsh wind and rain, paying the highest tribute to life! As Benjamin wrote to his daughter: "Nothing, whether it is too late or too early for me, will stop you from becoming the person you want to be. The process has no boundaries of time and can begin whenever you want. It doesn't matter if you want to change or stay as you are, there should be no strings attached to doing things. We can do this right or we can screw it up. But I hope that in the end you become the person you want to be. I want you to stop in this world that amazes you sometimes and experience feelings you've never felt before, I want you to meet other people who have a different point of view than you do, and I want you to have a life to be proud of. If it's not what you imagined your life would be, I hope you have the courage to start over." ?
As the once-powerful Captain Mike said when he died: "You can be as indignant as a mad dog at the world around you, you can curse your fate, but when the last moment comes, you can only gently let go." This is the ultimate expression of peace and the ultimate destination of love.
? This is a movie that moved me.?